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Sup, everyone!

I've decided to join up here to go on a learning curve. I haven't got Aspergers myself but a certain someone very special to me does...haha, a few of you might be able to guess who that is, judging by my avatar. I managed to have a mini-meltdown over basically nothing simply because I wasn't properly understanding how the relationship and related communication was operating... So it's time to prevent that from happening again. Lol.

As for the usual intro stuff, I'm a big car fanatic. I'm in love with the Subaru Impreza...in fact, the one in my avatar is the one I own I'm nuts over it...ever stressed, bored or feel like doing something, it's wasting petrol time! As far as career goes, I design magazines etc for a living. Interesting at times, head-against-keyboard MURDEROUS other times (21 hour shift anyone?).

Anyway. I'm here to learn...I've always been a very 'body language' and 'mood' sort of person as far as communication goes, and for blatantly obvious reasons this really should change It's doing nothing but getting me worked up over nothing and leaving my poor boy in what I imagine is a bit of a 'WTF??' state...

So yeah. Hi!

Welcome to WP!

Is your user name a reference to the mineral shale?

Tim

You're a sharp man

Actually, it's a long story. Had a dream one night...insane dream, cars were living creatures...not too different from cats or dogs in behaviour. One of the characters in the dream was a mongrel of a version 6 WRX STi, grey in colour (nearly identical to my avatar), went by the name of 'Shale' because of his colour. He's become my identity, though I've actually named MY car after him.

Long story short...my car's name (yes, car has a name!) is Shale, but I'm known as Shale too Hurr.

Welcome to WP. We have lots of Kiwis here.

I noticed It's good to see lots of Kiwis around, another thing in common


Edit: Thought I'd be a spammer and make y'all dizzy with the full photo my avatar came from...



My pride and joy!

Welcome, Shale!

BTW, thanks for answering my thread!

You're a graphic designer -- AWESOME!! I went to technical college for 2 years to be a network administrator but haven't found a job in computers, yet...

I'm doing some general office work (filing) until something promising comes up!

Welcome! Nice avatar you got there!

Heh. A buddy of mine has actually been pretty big on Imprezas in the past few years. As I remember he had like an 04' WRX, sold that off for a 2000'ish STI.

Welcome to the planet though Shale - hope you enjoy your stay and make a good friend or two .

Hi everyone

TennisFanatic - been good talking to ya, it's an interesting thread. It's not too bad being a Graphic Designer but I'd far prefer to be chasing Petter Solberg out there in the WRC...the design is probably a more realistic job though

Hope you manage to score your job in computers sometime soon, it's far better to be in your chosen career path after all.

RedMage - thanks Yep, that's my pride and joy, and the photoshoot that photo came from was a lot of fun. There were actually two cars there at the time, but only mine's in this shot...

techstepgenr8tion - thanks for the welcome I can see why your mate's really into Imprezas, they're insane. Mine's actually a non-turbo believe it or not (even though it looks like a version 6 STi) and even then it's so much more wild to drive than all the other cars I've driven. A 2004 WRX would have been a nice-looking car, but I imagine the '00 one would have been one of the bugeyes. Lol. At least they sound nice and go nice!


<3 you all

Yay ! ! A real car nut ! !! I'm obssessed with Ferraris, but Subarus are kewl too. Welcome to the Forum ! !! (Right now I'm begging a friend to loan me a pass to the Barret-Jackson Auction.)

Ferrari eh? Yeah they're okay I guess Much prefer my flat-four sound And having all four paws scrabbling for traction on gravel. Hehe! There are actually two of us car nuts floating around, my bf is just as bad as me...arguably worse! He's got one of these beasts too Hurr...

Yeah Ferraris just don't do it for me at all If someone gave me one I'd sell it and then buy an S201 and a 22B and a v9 STi But then I'm just a weirdo... XD I'm one of those rare females actually physically turned on by the sound of a boxer engine with uneven-length headers... O__o;

Besides...not many people can afford a Ferrari And an S201 is only a little bit slower...

Too true about the price .. Sigh .. At least you can afford the object of yer affection ... Sigh again .... As for boxer engines, YEAH, they rock ! ! I can tell the sound of a Ferrari with my back turned ! !!

Hahaha yeah I can hear a Subaru going up the road...three streets down! People can't even HEAR a car and I'm like 'LOLSUBIE!' (yeah I say LOL in real life...) and I can tell when my bf's on his way, his Subaru has a very unique burble.

My dream cars are a ver6 STi sedan (what I have except the real thing, not an HX with a body kit ) and a ver9 STi sedan They're somewhat affordable, but a hard slog. With the Ferrari...you may have some saving on your hands to get that...ouch...

Oh and of course, you can take a Subaru on gravel Wouldn't dare do that with a Ferrari